OK NSF EPSCoR Annual State Conference: Putting Our Mark on Climate Research
Over 80 researchers from across the state gathered on December 3 in Norman to highlight Oklahoma’s climate research efforts during the Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR Annual State Conference.
Researchers and outreach representatives of the Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Award No. IIA-1301789, “Adapting Socio-Ecological Systems to Increased Climate Variability,” presented mid-project progress updates during the conference, while post-docs and students displayed over 30 posters highlighting their multi-disciplinary participation in the EPSCoR project. (Twenty-nine of the abstracts may be viewed below.)
On December 1-2, prior to the Annual State Conference, EPSCoR researchers partnered with the highly esteemed Governor's Water Conference and Research Symposium to further expand the EPSCoR State Conference’s goal of increasing collaboration and furthering research growth. EPSCoR research was featured during a half-day session during the meeting on Dec. 2 titled "Integrated Socio-Ecological Research on Water." Access the Dec. 2 EPSCoR agenda. This strategic partnership allowed a diverse group of researchers from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, Oklahoma Water Resources Center, and Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR to come together, share research findings, and continue the important process of building new relationships to support climate science research in the state. Oklahoma State University Vice President for Research Dr. Kenneth Sewell closed Wednesday’s EPSCoR proceedings with a keynote dinner address, where he spoke of the importance of Oklahoma as a research state.
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Conference Materials:
Proceedings, Presentations, Posters & Abstracts
Conference Proceedings
Speaker Presentations
- “A Socio-Ecological Approach to Planning for Climate Change”
Dawn Jourdan, Assoc. Professor & Director, Division of Regional & City Planning, OU - "Introduction to the Watershed Websites"
Emma Kuster, Program Coordinator, Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR
Ron Miller, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, OSU
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Evan Linde, Research Cyberinfrastructure Analyst, OSU
- “Linking Land Use & Management, Water Resources & Human Wellbeing in Oklahoma City”
Heather McCarthy, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Plant Biology, OU - "Downscaled Climate Data: What is Available and How to Use it"
Renee McPherson, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Sustainability, OU
- "EPSCoR Outreach Highlights"
Grant Spotlight Video #1, Grant Spotlight Video #2
Gina Miller, Outreach Coordinator, Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR
- “A Modeling Framework for Coupled Natural-Human Systems”
Rachata Muneepeerakul, Assoc. Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, University of Florida
- "OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative: OneOCII"
Henry Neeman, Director, OSCER; Asst. VP for IT-Research Strategy Advisor, OU
Dana Brunson, Asst. VP for Research Cyberinfrastructure; Director, High Performance - "Adaptation to Climate Variability: The Role of the USDA Southern Plains Climate Hub"
Jean Steiner, Supervisory Soil Scientist, Grazinglands Research Laboratory, USDA
- “Development of Lidar Derived Products for Oklahoma Researchers”
Mike Treglia, Research Associate, Dept. of Biological Science, TU
- “NSF EPSCoR Update & Upcoming Funding Opportunities”
Tim VanReken, Program Director, National Science Foundation
- “Topology of Coupled Human & Natural Systems”
Duncan Wilson, Research Scientist, South Central Climate Science Center, OU
- “Vulnerability & Resiliency of Wetlands under Changing Climate in the Cimarron River Basin of Oklahoma”
Chris Zou, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, OSU
Poster Presentations
- Presenter: Rajen Bajgain
Assessing Summer Drought Over Oklahoma Mesonet Sites with the MODIS Land Surface Water Index
View the Poster - Presenter: Jingnuo Dong
An Approach to Revealing Meso-scale Spatial Patterns of Soil Moisture
View the Poster - Presenter: Jon Giddens
Urban Forest Health and Mortality in the Oklahoma City Metro Region
View the Poster - Presenter: Chih-Yu Lai
Spatial Interpolation for Temperature and Precipitation in Oklahoma Weather, Society and Government Survey
View the Poster - Presenter: Miriam Laytner
“All That’s Left Are Memories”: Lake Sardis and the Reconstruction of Memories Regarding Water, Wetlands... - Presenter: Jason Patton
Towards a High Resolution Soil Moisture Map of Oklahoma
View the Poster - Presenter: Yuanwei Qin
Oklahoma Map of Forest Cover at 30-m Spatial Resolution in 2010 - Presenter: Renato Rahal
Streamflow Responses to Sea Surface Temperature Variations Across Oklahoma
View the Poster - Presenter: Michael Stanton
The Kiamichi Watershed
View the Poster - Presenter: Mike Treglia
Does Habitat Stability Promote the Loss of a Complex Life Cycle Stage in a Stream-Associated Salamander - Presenter: Mike Treglia
Modeling the Current and Future Distributions of Juniper Spp. Across the Continental United States - Presenter: Tony VanWinkle
Ethnographic Research in the Upper Washita Watershed
View the Poster - Presenter: Jie Wang
Mapping Red Cedar in Oklahoma from 1984 to 2010 - Not Presented
- Presenter: Justin Alexander
Assessing Reservoir Operations and the Assoc. Changes in Water Quality on the Persistence of Stream Fishes - Presenter: Brannon Daniels
Declining Water Conditions and Recreation Demand at Oklahoma Reservoirs
View the Poster - Presenter: Holly Enlow
Simulating Reach-Scale Sediment Reduction from Stream Stabilization (Fort Cobb Reservoir Watershed)
View the Poster - Presenter: Xijia Han
Statistical Modeling for Spatio-Temporal Soil Moisture Data in Oklahoma
View the Poster - Presenter: Leon Hounnou
Modeling Least Cost Selection of Best Management Practices to Reduce Soil Erosion (Fort Cobb Watershed)
View the Poster - Presenter: Whitney Lisenbee
Evaluation of Field Jet Erosion Tests and WEPP-predicted Erodibility Parameters in Forests and Grasslands
View the Poster - Not Presented
- Presenter: Yao Zhang
Gross Primary Production in Oklahoma from 2000 to 2014
View the Poster - Presenter: Jesus Zubillaga
Value of Environmental Monitoring Information in Oklahoma Agriculture: A Research Perspective
View the Poster - Presenter: Benjamin Davis
Analyzing Changes in Urban Areas Using Landscape Pattern Metrics
View the Poster - Presenter: Toni Klemm
Improving Seasonal Climate Forecasts for Oklahoma Winter Wheat Farmers
View the Poster - Presenter: Daniel Logue
Detection Estimates and Habitat Occupancy of Two Pelagic Broadcast Spawning Cyprinids
View the Poster - Presenter: Ronald Miller
Drought-Influenced Low-Flow Non-Exceedance Plots for Selected USGS Gauges in Oklahoma
View the Poster - Presenter: Bharat Sharma Acharya
Temporal Variability in Water Level in a Tallgrass Prairie and Juniper Woodland - Presenter: Claude Buerger
The LandSHIFT Model: Use and Applications in Oklahoma
View the Poster
Photos from the conference can be accessed via our Flickr Page.